Bill Nailon

An overview of the PROSECCA project

Up to half of prostate cancer patients receive radiotherapy as part of their treatment and, although it is effective at destroying cancerous lesions deep within the body, this comes at the cost of damaging healthy, or normal, tissues. With 78% of prostate cancer patients surviving for 10 years or more, limiting life-changing side effects for […]

Professor Bill Nailon, Dr David Noble, Zhuolin Yang, Sarah Elliot, Alasdair Rutherford, Dr Tony Hallam, Dr George Beckett, Professor Duncan McLaren

Edinburgh Cancer Centre; University of Edinburgh; Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre

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Techniques for delivering smart adaptive radiotherapy

IMRT has been the gold standard technique for delivering radical radiation to most tumour sites for at least a decade. It is three-dimensional radiotherapy; plans sculpt dose towards the disease and away from organs at risk (OAR) in all three axes. These shapes are defined by the patient’s geometry at a single timepoint – the […]

Dr David Noble, Dr Raj Jena, Professor Bill Nailon

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh

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